Stephanie,

I am a lurker here (not really ttc yet as I have to get my Tubal Reversal first)

I noticed that you stated that you lost 60 lbs and a lot of it since January.

I was wondering how you did it? I have been on a 1000 cal. diet and working out 3-6 times a week, for 3 weeks now and I have not even lost 1 single pound.


Thank you for your input.

Andrea

Hi Andrea,
I'm not Stephanie, but I read your post and wanted to suggest a few things. First of all, you should re-evaluate the amount of calories you are eating per day. 1,000 calories is not a lot of food and if you are excercizing as well, you may need more calories to burn. If your calorie intake is too low, your metabolism slows down (it thinks you are starving so it slows down to conserve energy) and you may not lose weight. How did you come about to be on such a low calorie diet? Perhaps a 1500 or 1800 calorie diet may suit you better, but I would suggest speaking to a nutritonist to find out what your calorie intake should be to allow weight loss (if you haven't already). another is that thyroid conditions such as hypothyroidism can affect weight loss. Have you you had a thyroid profile (bloodwork) done to rule of thryroid problems. Just something to look into. HTH and good luck

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I however have been going back and forth between the atkins diet and a low calorie diet consuming about 1200 calories a day. But what Mom2Eliz said it extremely true, it was profiled on Discovery Healths National Weight Loss Challenge show.

My dieting choice is not one some agree with. Some tell me that if I want to do atkins then I should just do it, but I am still lactating and I need some of the extra carbs for my milk supply. Ironically though when I do introduce them during my low cal weeks I tend to maintain weight and possibly only lose about 1 pound for the week, but while I am on the Atkins protein diet the following week I can lose up to 5 pounds for the week.

But basically that's what I have been doing and so far have been able to keep my monthly goal of 10 pounds a month. Of course it's only been 2 months now, The forst 30 came off easily since it was mostly pregnancy water weight, but then the holidays came around and I just waited unil January to really start dieting, because lets face it who wants to diet during Thanksgiving and Christmas feasts! roflol!

Good Luck. Also be sure ot visit the Healthy Lifestyles Board at SheKnows http://talk.sheknows.com/forumdisplay.php?f=404 the members encourage each other through their weight loss ups and downs

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